Summary

In the Help Center, you can search for help articles relating to OS X and applications, and you can narrow down your choices using Boolean logic. The Help Center's browser interface enables you to navigate through help pages using the familiar concept of links, Back, Forward, and Home. Plus you can bookmark, print, and e-mail links to help pages for easy referral later. You also can do a quick text search directly from the Help menu's Search box.

Pop-up labels called help tags provide a quick reminder of some Finder and application elements' functions, while the man commands in the Terminal let you access help articles in the Mac's Unix environment.

Many manufacturers offer a range of support through online support pages. And several key websites are a great place to start for help for Mac computers, hardware, software, and OS X itself.

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